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Some signs of a light frost here overnight...hopefully last of the season. Thankfully we warm up quickly and thankfully the wind won't be as brutal as yesterday...made doing yard work a pain, especially cleaning the gutters.

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Ice in the water this morning. Plants susceptible to frost Gardening waits until after full moon in May

so has the pollen

frost here sat says overcast which will retard recovery today ..but it won't be 33 tonight. tomorrow begins a period where cloud depending, the afternoons could be more consistently making a run at 70 for 3 or so days. i noticed the 80s on saturday really triggered our green up process. we were budding before, but now all sugar and red maples are flowered well out, and even the oaks are bud swelling. it'll be interesting to compare at the end of the week.

I agree as I see very little chance for El Niño at this point. The only thing that I recall that ever explicitly hinted at it was CANSIPS a number of months ago when looking ahead to August showing a significant central Pacific equatorial warming. However, it has since been modifying this each run and no longer shows anything of note. In addition, Nino regions have cooled notable from highs in March/earlier this month (see below). When also considering the Euro’s notable warm bias in spring for the subsequent autumn, I’d also say very low chance. La Niña may very well have a better chance than El Niño.

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Totally agree - traveling on the drive happens constantly, especially when guys are gathering momentum heading to the rim. It’s one of those things refs just don’t want to blow the whistle on unless it’s super blatant. Calling it in a big moment would’ve caused way more controversy than letting it slide.

The trees have exploded over the last few days.

I can back him on this as a firefighter. While maybe not a "major" fire. It is quite a nuisance and a burden on the volunteers who have to sacrifice their day just to babysit it and keep dumping water on it.

Home for the low 33, my gosh April is flying by....

Yeah, the record run without a 100° day continues at JFK since 2013 due to the new summer onshore flow pattern. Number of Consecutive Days Max Temperature < 100 for JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NY Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending. Period of record: 1948-07-17 to 2025-04-20 1 4294 2013-07-19 through 2025-04-20 2 4016 1999-07-06 through 2010-07-03 3 4009 1972-07-24 through 1983-07-15 4 3610 1983-08-21 through 1993-07-08 5 2210 1966-07-05 through 1972-07-22 6 2185 1993-07-11 through 1999-07-04 7 963 1960-05-02 through 1962-12-20 8 857 1955-03-18 through 1957-07-21 9 817 1951-11-07 through 1954-01-31 10 736 1948-08-28 through 1950-09-02

Briefly down to 30.9°. Not as cold as expected.

Shocker. Guidance looks drier for this weekend.

Down to 31F here in the Valley, pretty decent cold.

I really fail to see what digital martyrdom on a weather forum does to advance the cause

Got down to 29° here. Last 20s before next fall?

I’m starting to gain more confidence in a cold-neutral ENSO. At this point, based on the subsurface, surface, trade winds and the -PMM, I’d say an El Niño is extremely unlikely

36° Cold start for the runners in hopkinton.

Good to know the long posts are not limited to weather. Some people need to get outside.

This place is LOLTASTIC.

The two main things the hardening off process is for are sun exposure and wind exposure. As well as adapting to a broader range of temps. The sun part is obvious, but the stems and roots are really not equipped to handle any real wind. A calm day is best, and I also usually start with one hour on the first day. Then slowly add on a couple more hours before gradually adding time in slightly sunnier spots. It's tedious, but I put a lot of time and effort into my seedlings. So I make sure they all make it through the home stretch! Good luck with the next batch! At this point it seems like ground sowing might be a safe bet for a lot of things! But I know more about plants, and less about weather.

Had a few tors pass southwest and southeast of here earlier. Made for an exciting evening. Picked up 0.74" rain today.